Police identify 2 dead in Pa. supermarket shooting

PHILIPSBURG, Pa. 
Pennsylvania State Police say they believe a retired trooper killed his wife with a shotgun inside a supermarket and then himself two days after she filed for divorce.

Department spokeswoman Maria Finn said the slain woman is Tracie Miscavish. Finn says she filed for divorce from her husband, Mark Miscavish, two days ago. He had retired in 2011 after 15 years on the force.

Police say they were called to a County Market store in Philipsburg on Thursday morning to find the two bodies.

Tracie Miscavish's sister, Gina March, tells reporters Mark Miscavish was briefly jailed in January on charges he beat up his wife.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

A retired state trooper shot and killed his wife inside a central Pennsylvania supermarket Thursday morning before committing suicide, state police said.

Their names were not released by authorities because investigators had not contacted their closest relatives. But a woman who spoke with reporters outside the County Market in Philipsburg said she was the woman's sister and that the slain woman had a restraining order against her husband.

Someone called 911 to report the shooting around 10 a.m., and police found two people dead when they arrived, Trooper Matthew Reifer said.

Emergency dispatchers said the scene was secure.

No one answered the phone at the store late Thursday morning, and messages were not returned by the Clearfield County coroner and district attorney.

A manager at another store in the same shopping complex said squad cars had filled the parking lot and that her store was on lockdown. Brittany Thompson, a manager at the Peebles, said a police officer had come in to tell staff and shoppers that several people had been shot at the Country Market.